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Our Mission:

Safe Schools Coalition, located in Washington State, is a public-private partnership, in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender, queer and questioning youth, working to help schools become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender, gender identity or sexual orientation.

Our Role:

Our History top of page

1988 -- Seattle Commission on Children and Youth holds hearings on the needs of gay and lesbian youth in Seattle

1988
-- the Commission issues a report including twenty-one recommendations for addressing those needs and convenes an ad hoc "Advisory Committee on Gay/Lesbian Youth and Schools" to offer technical assistance to the school district in implementing the recommendations that are school-specific


1989-1990
-- The Advisory Committee:
1991 -- The Advisory Committee, since has gradually begun serving a wider geographic area than Seattle, spins off from the Seattle Commission, becoming the "Schools Committee" of the American Friends Service Committee's GLBT Youth Program

1991
-- The Schools Committee:
1992 -- The Schools Committee: 1993 -- The Schools Committee, now working for statewide school safety, spins off once again, becoming the "Safe Schools Coalition of Washington"

←1995 -- Safe Schools Coalition's logo is designed by Karl Kaluza, LGBT community volunteer. Thanks, Karl!

1993-1998 -- Safe Schools Coalition:

Fall 2001 -- In recognition of our growing e-services and training on an international scale, the Coalition launched this new web site, dropped the "of Washington" from our name and changed our mission. Our mission became, "A Public-Private Partnership in Support of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth is to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation."
2006 -- Safe Schools Coalition became a member of National Safe Schools Roundtable.  Member of National Safe Schools Roundtable (NSSR)

 

 

June 2008 -- The Coalition turns 20, and is honored as a grand marshal at Seattle Pride.

February 2009 -- We have our "2008 Annual Website Report And Decade Comparison" here:  http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/2008AnnualWebsiteReportAndDecadeComparison.pdf  (pdf format)

September 2011 -- The Coalition is the proud recipient of The 2011 Multicultural Excellence Award from Washington State Association for Multicultural Education, and The Equality Award from Human Rights Campign.

September 22, 2011 - The Coalition's first interviews airs on bloomingOUT Radio which ran through April 2012.  Listen to podcasts of the interviews with SSC folks linked from this page.


January 2015 -- We changed the mission of the Coalition from "
Safe Schools Coalition is an international public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, that is working to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation."
to:
“Safe Schools Coalition, located in Washington State, is a public-private partnership, in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender, queer and questioning youth, working to help schools become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender, gender identity or sexual orientation.”


Our role also changed in January 2015 from:

We used to be the 'Safe Schools Coalition of Washington,' but now we proudly serve a world-wide constituency -- with some services specifically for our Washington members. Our role is to reduce bias-based bullying and violence in schools and to help schools better meet the needs of sexual minority youth and children with sexual minority parents/guardians locally, nationally and internationally, by ...

  1. providing resources to schools (posters, publications),

  2. raising parent/guardian, student, educator and community awareness (list serve, website, public speaking, media),

  3. providing skill-based training for educators (administrators and other professional and paraprofessional staff),

  4. serving as a technical advisory resource (to researchers, policy-makers, educators and activists -- students, parents/guardians, community members), and

  5. conducting and disseminating research (to educators, policy-makers and activists).

Safe Schools Coalition also serves the community within Washington State by ...

  1. intervening and advocating on behalf of individual students, educators and families experiencing sexual orientation/identity-based harassment and violence, and

  2. holding legislators, school boards and school administrators accountable for making schools safe and free of bias-based bullying and violence, through community organizing and principled activism.

to this agreed upon focus of the Coalition:
    Schools and School age youth
    Safety (Anti-bullying, harassment and intimidation, overall school climate
    LGBTQ- we ally ourselves with other groups working on Schools safety beyond the LGBTQ community and will continue to work on our capacity



Note: The term "anti-gay" is used here to denote incidents motivated by bias against gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people. Some of those targeted are actually heterosexual; the bias is the critical factor.

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Our Mailing Address for Information:

Safe Schools Coalition; c/o Equal Rights Washington; PO Box 2388 Seattle, WA 98111

Our Mailing Address for Finances:

Safe Schools Coalition; c/o Equal Rights Washington; PO Box 2388 Seattle, WA 98111

Your contribution is tax-deductible. Equal Rights Washington Education Fund serves as the fiscal agent for the Safe Schools Coalition and is a 501(c)(3) organization. (U.S. Tax ID #: 32-0146056). For more information about our fiscal sponsor see: ERW Education Fund. Charges on your credit card will appear as coming from Banner Bank.
For questions about our IRS 501(c)3 status or accounts payable or receivable, contact us.

Our Mailing Address for Membership:

Safe Schools Coalition; c/o Equal Rights Washington; PO Box 2388 Seattle, WA 98111

Our Crisis Phone for the SSC Intervention Team: (Washington State only)

  • 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723)  24 hours a day - the phone line is answered at the sexual assault hotline that is a service of King County Sexual Assault Resource Center. They will have a Safe Schools Coalition Intervention Specialist volunteer get back to you within 24 hours.
  • You can also contact the SSC intervention team with this contact form: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contactus/

Our Message Phone:

206-451-SAFE (7233)

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